Sword Art Online - Volume 1 - Aincrad

Sword Art Online

Volume 1

~Aincrad~

Written by:

Reki Kawahara

Illustrations by:

Abec

Translated by:

Baka-Tsuki
 

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A huge castle made of stone and steel floating in an endless sky.

That was all this world was.

It took a vagarious group of craftsmen one month to survey the place; the diameter of the base floor was about 10 kilometers
—
large enough to fit the entirety of Setagaya-ku within. Above, there were 100 floors stacking straight upwards; its sheer size was unbelievable. It was impossible to even guess how much data it consisted of.

Inside, there were a couple of large cities along with countless small scale towns and villages, forests and plains, and even lakes. Only one stairway linked each floor to another, and the stairways existed in dungeons where large numbers of monsters roamed; so discovering and getting through was no easy matter. However, once someone made a breakthrough and arrived at a city of the upper floor, the «Teleport Gates» there and of every cities in the lower floors would be connected making it possible for anyone to move freely through these levels.

With these conditions, the huge castle had been steadily conquered for two years. The current front line is the 74th floor.

The
name
of
the
castle
was
«Aincrad»,
a
world
of
battles
with
swords
that
continued
floating
and
had
engulfed
approximately
six
thousand
people.
Otherwise
known
as…